>Hi!
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>Do you know a way (or the best way) to run Clipper(5.2) programs and Visual Fox Pro concurrently? So, we want for 1 or 2 year, run existing clipper pgm and gradually go to VFP, but accessing the same data files.
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>Can we do it with VFP, or we absolutly need a third party product like
>Avantages Xbase Server, or maybe CodeBase (www.sequiter.com).
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>If you already experienced this or have some idea just let me know.
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>Tanks in advance,
>Eric.

If it is Clipper 5.2 you can use the FoxPro RDD so you are actually accessing FoxPro 2.6 tables and indexes. I believe the locking maechanisiums will even gel.

Once you are 100% VFP you can move to a VFP database.

BOb